National Commissions for UNESCO are national organizations that were established by Member States of UNESCO and which are the only such bodies in the whole UN system.[1] T

The national commissions were established under Article VII of the Constitution of the UNESCO[2] by UNESCO member countries on a permanent basis, and are associated with the government bodies of the member countries.[2] Currently, there are 198 such National Commissions.[3]

History

During the Cold War different national commissions in different Balkan states initiated counter-hegemonic cultural rapprochement and cooperation between isolationist Albania, Warsaw Pact countries of Bulgaria and Romania, NATO member states of Greece, Turkey and Non-Aligned Yugoslavia when in 1963 in Bucharest they established International Association of South-East European Studies.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "About National Commissions for UNESCO - | UNESCO.org". Portal.unesco.org. 2009-03-16. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
  2. 1 2 "Basic Texts" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
  3. ↑ "About us". UNESCO Center for Peace. Archived from the original on 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
  4. ↑ Bogdan C. Iacob (2020). "Southeast by Global South: The Balkans, UNESCO, and the Cold War". In James Mark; Artemy M. Kalinovsky; Steffi Margus (eds.). Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World. Indiana University Press. pp. 251–270. ISBN 978-0-253-04650-5.
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